A review by kyr_6592
Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins

4.0

A relief falling down through him like rain

It was about oblivion, the swirling pain we embrace hoping to eclipse the greater, harder pain of loss. 

But Tavin’s making time. All he’ll ever have. The world has taken everything from him and he’s taking it right the fuck back. They’ll wear each other form to nothing, this world and him, right down to sulfur, dust, and bone. 

As if the land cannot hold us anymore as if the line of earth and sky has fouled we are falling through the wolfholes of stars boy we are falling down 

If I were to pick up a rock or stone out here and call it mind it would only fall back down when I die

He’s nowhere anymore but in Rowdy’s heart. That’s what Ms. Houston says. Rowdy looks down, his breath blooming and fading before him, and taps his chest. That’s where his uncle Wendell is. He smiles and takes off running, carries his uncle Wendell with him up into the mountains.